While the media steals the spotlight from groundbreaking inventions and incredible technologies, scientists continue to plow through new challenges with a vengeance. What’s new? Hmm. What’s not new? Groundbreaking research in epigenetics is opening the door to understanding latent or “junk” code in our DNA. The research actually came out of the University of Maryland [...]Read More »

The image is from an Ardella Cosplay When I started kindergarten, my teachers (including an assistant) suggested to my mother that I be advanced to the third grade. That was neither the first, nor the last time someone remarked about my intelligence. When I was a kid, I thought that was some sort of great [...]Read More »

Personally, I think great fantasy art has spurred more story ideas in me than anything else. This particular image really caught my imagination (send me a link if you know where it came from – I can’t find it again). Originally, I imagined that this was a dragon. Then, I noted that there do not [...]Read More »

After years of wrangling with my epic fantasy: A New Breed of Dragon, I decided to entirely revamp the beginning. It almost seems sacrilegious to do so at this late juncture but I’m doing it all the same. This excerpt represents my newest attempt to mess around with a story that deals with parallel [...]Read More »

Moon 514 has a final cover (thanks to Grant M. Hansen) and is available on Amazon.com. Now, if only B&N didn’t convert a perfectly formatted epub file into their own, messed up epub file, I’d have it available to sell there as well … rats. Here is the first chapter … Gratis! There are [...]Read More »

Today, I’m offering a brief excerpt from my new short story: Slice, which is being released on Amazon, B&N, and ibook in the next day or two: Tzun quickly rounded the corner, discretely dropping the wallet he’d just lifted from an inattentive merchant and nimbly feathering his fingers through a thick set of freshly [...]Read More »

Today’s prose is a scene featuring the white griffon of Moon 514: The beast tentatively pawed the ground somewhat like a bull taunted by a puny matador that wasn’t really worth the effort. Soon, the taps became tears in the earth as massive paws extended their claws and tilled the sandy soil in frustration. Not [...]Read More »

The beast subtitling Moon 514 is more than a sidekick with saber-teeth – he is an intelligent, flying feline who can telepathically communicate. Unfortunately for him, this doesn’t keep him from becoming enslaved by the psionic prowess of the Magic Woman. Here is an excerpt from the chapter “Enslaved!”: The beast tentatively pawed the [...]Read More »

Today, prose from a portion of the scene behind the cover of Moon 514: Dense wisps of fog slowly encircled the magic woman, sensually caressing her body as if petting a purring kitten. Crawling on all fours, she seemed to slither, whispering – nay, hissing – a long diatribe of cursings towards the approaching men. [...]Read More »

So, today’s prose is another drabble I wrote. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, this is one is designed to see how pure you are in your thoughts. I promise – this is a G-rated drabble but if your mind is not riveted upon childhood innocence, you may find it rated R or worse. Scared [...]Read More »